****Soccer is the Greatest Sport on Earth In-Game****

[dylanphan]

Group A: Benfica, Manchester United, Basel, CSKA Moscow
Group B: Bayern Munich, Paris St-Germain, Anderlecht, Celtic
Group C: Chelsea, Atlético Madrid, Roma, Qarabag
Group D: Juventus, Barcelona, Olympiakos, Sporting Clube de Portugal
Group E: Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, Liverpool, Maribor
Group F: Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester City, Napoli, Feyenoord
Group G: Monaco, Porto, Besiktas, Leipzig
Group H: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Tottenham, Apoel Nicosia

 

[dylanphan]

Group E easily this weakest.
England could have a bunch of teams advance here. Honestly, City may have the toughest time there as Napoli are good, and Feyenoord no mugs at all.

 

[dylanphan]

I think Group G may be the most interesting. Honestly, I could make a case for any of those teams advancing.

 

[braves]

Group C and H are tough

 

[gunner4ever]

I can see all 5 English teams qualify

at the least 4 of them qualify I believe

 

[KJ]

I was all in on Spurs in this competition but they got about the worst draw possible...I think Dortmund might be the best in Germany this season and Real by default will win the league...seriously, does APOEL get a point?

 

[gunner4ever]

you have a very high opinion of dortmund. I don't know this team enough this season but my early opinion is spurs are a little better than them. let's see in the next few weeks I'll be watching a few of their games to know them better let's hope you're right and they make the bundesliga interesting

Not an advantage for spurs to play at wembley so far let's see if they can change that

 

[dylanphan]

I think Spurs are going to be hurt by playing home games at Wembley instead of WHL, especially against a team like Dortmund. IF Dortmund are at full strength as they have tons of speed and can take advantage of larger pitch sizes. PEA, Reus, even Pulisic's games would have been a bit hurt by WHL as they like to get wide and fly down the wings. Not saying Spurs don't have athletic guys, but they lost Walker too. I think Spurs are better than Dortmund but probably closer to a coin flip. Plus, really hard to go into Germany and get points at Dortmund

 

[KJ]

My opinion of Dortmund carries over from the subpar season last year and yes, I think they can take Bayern to the wire. The caveat is Leipzig which might damn well be a crap shoot because they are young and have talent all over, but Dortmund I think are playing with a chip on their shoulders after last year

 

[braves]

The loss of Dembele hurts

 

[KJ]

Correction: helps

 

[KJ]

I think he was a sieve

 

[guaranteeed]

Group A: Benfica, Manchester United, Basel, CSKA Moscow
Group B: Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Anderlecht, Celtic
Group C: Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Roma, Quarabag
Group D: Juventus, Barcelona, Olympiakos, Sporting Lisbon
Group E: Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, Liverpool, Maribor
Group F: Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester City, Napoli, Feyenoord
Group G: Monaco, Porto, Besiktas, RB Leipzig
Group H: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Tottenham, Apoel


United, Basel
PSG, Bayern
Chelsea, Roma
Barca, Juve
Sevilla, Liverpool
Napoli, City
Leipzig, Porto
Madrid, Spurs

 

[guaranteeed]

FS1 with Pulisic at Wembley is going to be insane

they might send the whole department to cover it

 

[KJ]

A: United, Benfica
B: PSG, Bayern
C: Atletico, Roma
D: Juve, Barca
E: Sevilla, Liverpool
F: City, Napoli
G: Leipzig, Porto
H: Real, Dortmund

Man I feel for you Spurs fans but that is on helluva group for watching

 

[guaranteeed]

Dembele is gone, Reus will miss the first 4 games of the group stages I believe, Goetze is still in and out with his metabolic issues i thought

 

[KJ]

Spurs would win 3 of those groups I think, A E G

 

[braves]

Goetze played last Saturday . Unless you think Pulisic picks up the scoring a lot, I think it's tough to replace Dembele production. BVB could go out and pick up a striker in the next week

 

[braves]

Spurs and BVB play some of the most entertaining football out there, so def exciting group to watch

 

[guaranteeed]

ya that is the thing

spurs still have 2 signings to make probly, poch said 4

and BVB have at least 30-50m, since I assume Barca are paying in installments

 

[guaranteeed]

spurs/bvb wembley is first game of group

so no Reus thats a must win

then they get APOEL

if they can go in to the 3rd/4th games with Madrid with 6 points that would be huge

Dortmund could potentially have 0 or 1 if they lost at wembley and didnt beat madrid

 

[KJ]

Wow, City have Burnley at home on Sat, Napoli on Tuesday and Cardinals/Rams on Sunday in London...now that would be a week

 

[dylanphan]

No Reus for Dortmund, but Alli suspended for the game too, no?

Here's some interesting reading https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/champions-league/

 

[guaranteeed]

ya Alli misses the first 3

Sonny will just slot in though

 

[guaranteeed]

those rankings seem way off and I cant tell if they are more off play this year (Man U being so high) or last year (Monaco_

 

[KJ]

Let's do this. I'm wide awake and it's 4am, this is beautiful...

Aguero on the bench, he'll score in the last 20

 

[KJ]

Curious how Ibra and Lukaku coexist, I think Rashford is the loser in this situation but United can score at will if they figure it out

 

[KJ]

I'm somehow awake and will talk to myself all game, let's rock these fuckers

 

[KJ]

Aguero on the bench, not positive he's ok with that and it's a concern. Bournemouth are straight shit, can't pinpoint they're anything good at

 

[KJ]

These motherfuckers are asleep, wake the fuk up

 

[KJ]

And this lineup is pure shit, what a terrible idea Pep

 

[~Utah]

This score stands and Pep is on hot seat

 

[~Utah]

I too think dembele loss helps Dortmund. He's got a lot of potential but he's prettty raw. I watched a bunch of games last year where he just played undisciplined and took shots that were insane

 

[KJ]

I saw him not take shots when he should have taken shots

 

[KJ]

I also saw him not pass when he should have passed

 

[braves]

lol I'd just tell Pep to fuck off

 

[guaranteeed]

Why is the game still going 2 mins after extra time should have ended

 

[guaranteeed]

Cherries got fucked

 

[~Utah]

Broken cherry

 

[KJ]

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[braves]

Why is the game still going 2 mins after extra time should have ended

Because Pep bitched and moaned all game

 

[braves]

Haha

 

[KJ]

Because Pep bitched and moaned all game

Paid off

 

[B.A.R.]

Even Dad saw that.

 

[guaranteeed]

He's still going

Sit the fuck down pep

Fucking whinger

 

[KJ]

This gonna go a buck 20?

 

[braves]

Did he go into the crowd or did the crowd go onto the field

 

[KJ]

Mike Dean is so shady, no clue how he still gets gigs

 

[Monger]

Ake should've seen red in the 1st, so I'm not bothered. Don't waste time.

 

[KJ]

Mong it's a winning dance :cheers3: